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Music and Lyrics by Ibro Lolov/MEGA Music
Performed by Ibro Lolov and his Gipsy Orchestra
SOLOISTS:
Ibro Lolov - accordion
Biser Chobanov - clarinet
Kiril Mitev - keyboard
Nikolay Gardev - vocals
Bojidar Andreev - vocals
IBRO LOLOV is known in Bulgaria as legend of Bulgarian folk music. He is a third generation musicians whose father founded one of the most popular Bulgarian folk orchestras. Ibro Lolov is a virtuoso accordion player with a unique technique. The Paolo Soprani Company has created and manufactured a special accordion for Ibro Lolov. His accordion playing technique features the virtuosity of the Gipsy musicians and shows a phenomenal sense of style. Ibro Lovlov has toured extensively in Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Germany amongst others. In 1983 he won the first prize at the international festival in Paris "The Heart of Accordionist". On this recording Ibro Lolov performs with some of the most outstanding Bulgarian Gipsy musicians.
Gypsy Music: has always had a certain fascination for us - there is a lot of mystery of faraway places in this music, a kind of longing, a sadness and often such exuberant and fiery enthusiasm as to make our hearts pound and our feet tap. Apart from this Gypsy musicians usually play their instruments excellently and are able to express and project a veritable rainbow of emotions with their guitars, accordions and violins. Gypsies truly "have music in their blood".
History: The term Gypsy music refers strictly to the gypsies' own folk music, but in its broadest sense has become a general term for music performed and cultivated by gypsies.
The gypsies were/are an itinerant people believed to have originated from northern India, their language being akin to Sanskrit. By the 9th century they were in Persia and by the 11th they had reached Bulgaria, by the 15th century they were in many European countries.
There is no single musical style shared by gypsies throughout the world. In the 20th century gypsy musicians are found not only in Hungary but also from Iran through the Balkans to the Russian Republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Andalusia and even North Africa.
Everywhere they perform their music in a style and on instruments characteristic of the region and its inhabitants.
It would be extremely difficult for the untrained listener to distinguish Bulgarian gypsy music from Bulgarian folk music. There are many elements common to both.
